The phrase "a shocking way" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method or manner that is surprising or disturbing in nature.
Example: "The documentary revealed a shocking way that the industry has been exploiting its workers."
Alternatives: "an alarming manner" or "a startling approach."
He explained at the time that "some of the content I provided for those publications was intended to shock readers or to use humour in a shocking way rather than to provide legitimate commentary".
For New Hope, it was a shocking way to lose.
Great architecture: now there's a shocking way to improve the quality of life.
It ended Thursday in a shocking way, as the junior guard was kicked off the team.
It is a shocking way to introduce Sherwin B. Nuland's agonizing memoir of his father.
In a shocking way, the day offers itself as a dramatic shape.
He said: "This an appalling act committed by depraved individuals who breached the sanctity of the churchyard in a most shocking way with the intention to cause as much distress to the family as possible.
The black Chrysler and the little Ruger rifle play into the story down the track but in an unexpected and shocking way.
Does either agree with Charles Krauthammer who concludes that Holder is acting in an "illegal and shocking way" by simply ignoring the letter of the law, as Obama is allegedly doing in delaying implementation of one aspect of Obamacare?
Still pumping out formidable and monstrously contemporary fiction – his latest novel Bleeding Edge deals in an engrossing, hilarious and shocking way with the Deep Web, video games and 9/11 – he not only disproves all those pessimists who fear literary novels are doomed in the digital age but points a way forward for serious practitioners of all the arts… not least for visual artists.
As one police lieutenant said, the deaths of two undercover detectives last Monday felt, in a shocking, unexpected way, like a return to normal -- "a very sad normal".
